Acronis True Image 11

States it is Vista Compatible. Has anyone used it and if so what is your impression.

usmc_nam_vet said:

States it is Vista Compatible. Has anyone used it and if so what is your impression.

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Beautiful program,combatible with Vista.My Recomendations,worth every $ spent on it.
I use Acronis Home edition 11 over 1 year with Vista...and Acronis keeps my Vista in life
Before Acronis I was a blind fan of Norton Ghost 2003 (and earler versions) but due to an diferent Vista's MBR Norton don't work with Vista.
Support every scenario of backing up,including "hot" imaging of system partition,diferential backups,mounting created images as another virtual partition,extracting files or folders and finaly recover from disaster with previosly created image.
On first usage you will be prompted to create emergency CD (highly recomended) with full version of Acronis.
When creating image you will be prompted to chose one of 3 types of compressions,none,normal,high and very high,type of compresion determines time of creating image.
In my case system partition C: is 40GB (35 used) and takes up to 20 min. without validation of image and 35-40 with validation.

Yes I use it for both Vista and XP and it works very well. I definitely recommend it.

It works very well with Vista x64!

I'm torn on this one becasuse I used Acronis for a number of years on XP but when I moved to Vista x64 the software gave me nothing but problems. First the install was extremely rocky. It was a very, very slow to install, but I've read that others have had the same issue. Once installed, Acronis would usually toss me a BSOD when I tried to image a drive or use the secure zone. Again, I've read from others that they also had similar issues with Acronis that lead to disk and registry corruption. Rather than risk it, I switched to Genie Backup Pro with disaster recovery. It makes me feel a bit more comfortable because according to Genie is will work with Vista x64. From the Acronis perspective is just says it will work with Vista but doesn't really go into which flavors it supports.

I use Vista Ultimate x64 with Acronis True Image Home 11. I have used this program to restore a couple of times as well as replace my boot drive. Absolutely no problems.

I can image backup a 300GB boot drive with 75GB used to another drive on my system in 11 minutes (single 40GB+ file). I also use Genie Backup Manager Pro to backup certain parts of my system (documents, Music, Pictures and Mail). Genie is much slower, running at about 700MB/min.

I feel safer with a multi-tiered backup system.

I've used it here in Vista x64 with no problems.

Tip 1:
It is essential to have a bootable CD with the Acronis TI program on it, so you can restore the image of your operating system partition if Windows becomes unbootable.

After installing Acronis TI in Windows, and after saving your first image of the system disk onto a separate hard disk, use the item on Acronis's menu for creating the bootable CD. Then boot the CD to test whether it can see all your hard disks. A good test is to use its menu item for verifying your saved backup image.

Occasionally, it can happen that the program on the bootable CD can't read your hard disks, because it doesn't have the right drivers for your hardware. If so email Acronis support and they will send you a download link for the "safe" version of the CD (as an iso image file). This Safe version is a bit slower than the standard one but it should be compatible with all kinds of hard disk controllers because it uses BIOS calls instead of drivers.

Tip 2
Don't save your backup images to another partition on the same hard disk using the "Secure Zone". Save them into a normal folder on a separate hard disk (or DVDs). Most problems with Acronis I've read about on forums are from people using the Secure Zone feature.

Tip 3
If you have a Seagate or Maxtor hard disk, you can use the free Sagate DiskWizard, which is made for Seagate by Acronis and has all of the most essential functions of TrueImage, such as making clones and saving and restoring images.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard